Kenzaburō Ōe

review 1: I was intrigued to read Kenzaburo Oe’s novel The Changeling (2010) when I heard that it was about Oe’s brother-in-law the deceased filmmaker Juzo Itami. I had read mysterious reports about Itami’s suicide that suggested that it might have come at the hands of yakuza, which had ea...

review 1: I used to live in Japan and I should have known what I was going to get when I opened up this book- a translation of a prizewinning Japanese novel- yet somehow it didn't resonate. Maybe it was the awkwardness of the translation with its clunky conversational style, but I found it...